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Millicent D. Kingham

1866 - 1927 Hymnal Number: 1504 Composer of "BENSON" in Small Church Music

Walter Parratt

1841 - 1924 Hymnal Number: 1540 Composer of "OBIIT" in Small Church Music

1843 - 1906 Person Name: Alfred Legge, 1843-1919 Hymnal Number: 1487 Composer of "THEODORA (LEGGE)" in Small Church Music Rv Alfred A K Legge United Kingdom 1843-1919. It is presumed that he was born in Cambridge, England, the son of printer/compositor, William Legge (mother was Mary Legge). Alfred, at age nine, was a chorister in church. He presumably became a minister in Germans, Norfolk. His wife was Theodora Susan Palmer (1848-1908), and it is presumed he named his tune after her. They had a daughter, Theodora Constance Mary, born in 1875, and a son, Alfred Reginald, born in 1878. Alfred A K died at Ashford, Kent, England. John Perry

Maurice L. Wostenholm

1887 - 1959 Hymnal Number: 302 Composer of "MT HOLYOKE" in Small Church Music

Charles Avison

1709 - 1770 Hymnal Number: 2303 Composer of "AVISON" in Small Church Music Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, studied music in Italy, then served as organist of St. Nicholas' in Newcastle. He was respected both for his instrumental compositions and arrangements, and his writings on musical aesthetics. The hymn tunes attributed to him are adaptations. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Henry Harington

1727 - 1816 Hymnal Number: 3828 Composer of "HARINGTON" in Small Church Music Born: September 29, 1727, Kelston, Somerset, England. Died: January 15, 1816, Bath, Somerset, England. Buried: Kelston, Somerset, England. Harington, a physician, was mayor of Bath, England, in 1793, and founded the Harmonic Society there. "A tablet was erected to his memory in Bath Abbey, on which is a curious mathematical figure highly suggestive of a proposition in Euclid, but which is really a design showing the ratios of the vibration numbers in the various intervals of the major scale." Lightwood, p. 358 --www.hymntime.com/tch

C. L. Naylor

1869 - 1945 Hymnal Number: 3157 Composer of "DERWENT" in Small Church Music

Theodore Aylward

1844 - 1933 Hymnal Number: 6615 Composer of "NUTBOURNE" in Small Church Music

Nathaniel Norton

1839 - 1925 Hymnal Number: 6665 Author of "Oh, think of the King of Glory" in Small Church Music Nathaniel Norton USA 1839-1925. Born at Brooklyn,NY, he attended Yale University. He worked for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. He married Emma Sylvia Reed in 1865, and they had four children: Nathaniel, Caroline, Stella, and William. He died at Englewood, NJ, but was buried in Brooklyn, NY. No other information was found on this person. John Perry